Apricity on my Shoulders
Created for a Spoonflower Design Challenge, this pattern depicts the warmth of the sun in winter. Apricity is a long forgotten, English word used in the 17th Century.
Henry Cockeram recorded this word in his 1623 edition of The English Dictionary; or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words. No longer found in modern dictionaries, besides The Oxford English Dictionary, this marvelous word describes a wonderful sensation.
“These humicubations, the nocturnal irrorations, and the dankishness of the atmosphere, generated by a want of apricity, were extremely febrifacient.” Lorenzo Altisonant (aka Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour), Letters to Squire Pedant, 1856